Day One

Alright here we go...I set my alarm for 6:00 am this morning since I normally get up about 7:30 to get my daughter ready for school. And let me start by saying I am not a morning person....at all. So when that alarm went off I had to use the analogy that Garrett describes in his audio program: "Imagine that I'm a doctor and I just told you you have 53 days to live unless you take this pill for 52 days, would you take the pill? Yes, so think of this activity as if your life depended on it, because in many ways it actually might." So there I am saying to myself, "My life depends on it, my life depends on it." And amazingly it only took me a few minutes to roll my butt out of bed.

I've made a little insert in my journal that I use as a guide each day of how I have structured my Power Hours, it looks like this:

DAILY POWER HOUR - 52 Days like your life depended on it...

10 MINS - Gratitude Gratitude Journal
10 MINS - Physical 10 Minute Trainer, plan meals
10 MINS - Mental Listen to Incantations, Motivational, Vision Board
10 MINS - Soul Purpose Prayer and Scripture Study
10 MINS - Financial Review work day, income, cashflow
10 MINS - Social Write appreciation letters, plan datenight and FHE

Now this is obviously just a guideline, it gives me quick ideas and things I can be doing in each of those areas.

So what did I do today? I started with 10 minutes in my Gratitude Journal (and by the way I am keeping a composition notebook with me so I can record everything I do). I love writing in my Gratitude Journal, this is something Kara and I started about a year a go and did off and on, but I love just saying, "I'm grateful for..." over and over. I can easily fill up a page in 10 minutes and I notice that it makes me act more grateful throughout the day for those things or people I list.

Then on to Physical. This one I have to be honest is going to probably be the toughest one for me. I'm only 32 but I feel very old tired and out of shape. I played basketball last Thursday for church ball for the first time in at least 5 years and I was ashamed how my mind remember what I wanted to do but my body just responded with a loud, "HUH?" Being 6:00 in the morning I felt very sore and slow and tired so I spent this time just stretching as thoroughly as I could. And it felt great but the 10 minutes when too quickly, so I continued this as I moved on to mental.

For the Mental area I listened to Garrett's tracks about the difference between a Producer and a Consumer. This has really hit me recently when studying this. I'm recognizing in so many areas of my life where I need to produce more than I consume and realizing that my mindset is so consumer based right now. I studied recently a book by James Rey and he talked about how God doesn't care if we have lots of nice things, toys and money, but he definitely wants us to be the person that we would have to become to have that stuff. This has been my ponderings for the last 3 months now...I'm getting closer.

Soul Purpose...for this are I spend my time Praying and studying my scriptures. And I read something really powerful recently in John 17:3 "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent." I know that God's purpose is to bring about the immortality and Eternal Life of man. And this scripture just showed me that we gain our Eternal Life meaning return to the presence of our Father in Heaven, by knowing him. I follow the references for knowing him and find in Jeremiah 9:3 "be truthful", Hosea 2:20 "betroth ourselves to him, meaning join him and his cause." 1 John 4:7-8 "Love God and others", D&C 101:16 "be comforted know that God is in control"....I love the scriptures.

Financial - I set goals for my work day of what I wanted to accomplish including starting this blog, and I had some bills to pay and balance.

Social - this one kind of came to me this morning. My daughter Harley woke up early and came down and sat next to me on the couch and wrapped up in a blanket while I was studying scriptures. So I got to spend some time with her and talk about her week at school. Found out she needed a CD for music class of her favorite song or 2 to share, so we went up on the computer and made that CD and what-a-know her favorite song is my favorite song right now, "Train - Hey, Soul Sister!"

Great First day, I feel energized and good!